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EarGram: An Application for Interactive Exploration of Concatenative Sound Synthesis in Pure Data

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7900)

Abstract

This paper describes the creative and technical processes behind earGram, an application created with Pure Data for real-time concatenative sound synthesis. The system encompasses four generative music strategies that automatically rearrange and explore a database of descriptor-analyzed sound snippets (corpus) by rules other than their original temporal order into musically coherent outputs. Of note are the system’s machine-learning capabilities as well as its visualization strategies, which constitute a valuable aid for decisionmaking during performance by revealing musical patterns and temporal organizations of the corpus.

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Concatenative sound synthesis recombination generative music 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Faculty of EngineeringUniversity of PortoPortugal
  2. 2.School of Music and Performing ArtsPolytechnic of PortoPortugal
  3. 3.University of Texas at AustinUSA

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